Trip to visit Henry!!

Many of you already know this, but I'm going to visit Henry this January!! I can't believe the idea never occurred to me before, but once the idea of a visit to Seoul was planted I couldn't let it go until I made it happen. Turns out that Brent and I had just enough miles for me to go round trip to Seoul for free. The very first availability is on Jan. 17 so I'm taking it! I leave on Jan. 17 and arrive in Seoul on Jan. 19. I leave on Jan 23 and return back on Jan 24. I even get to have a one night layover in Tokyo on the 18th. Brent laughs that I'll be in the largest city in the world all by myself, but I think it's a bit exciting. I know I'll get to visit with Henry once maybe even twice. I'll also have time to explore Seoul, do some shopping, take lots of pictures, figure out the money system and figure out the subway system. My friend Beth Ring will be there with me since she's adopting a boy who is 10 days younger than Henry. We get to stay at the Eastern guest house and I'm excited to see some of the workings of the agency that we're adopting Henry through. I have to admit that even though it probably won't happen, I'm secretly hoping that Henry would get his Visa issued while I was over there. Any extra prayers in that direction would be greatly appreciated.

Another care package!

I'm extremely late in posting this (if I had 2 extra hours each day I might have gotten to this earlier!) but way back in early November a sweet family finally got their travel call to pick up their son in S. Korea. Sweet Stephanie graciously took a care package over for me. I knew this would be my last chance to send a care package before Christmas, so of course I had to send a Christmas outfit. I had always hoped to get Henry before Christmas, but since I can't I figure I can at least dress him for Christmas. :) I also sent some mixed nuts for the foster family (evidently nuts are a real treat for them), another disposable camera, a family picture of us at the pumpkin patch, a teddy bear that we recorded a message for Henry , a letter translated to Korean, and Lydia made Henry a Christmas picture. I took a picture of where she signed the picture because it was so funny! Lydia is starting to get interested in nicknames, so she put nicknames on the picure. I love it!! She wrote From:Lydia (the Lyd) To: Henry(the Hen)